ThinkGeek is producing a series of collectable figures based on Sony franchises which look a heck of a lot like Nintendo's amiibo.

The Totaku Collection consists of plastic figures mounted on bases and features the likes of the hunter from Bloodborne, Crash Bandicoot, Kratos from God of War, Parappa the Rapper, Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet and even the the iconic Feisar FX350 anti-grav racing craft from WipEout.

As our friends over at Push Square have kindly pointed out, it's not quite as if Sony has shamelessly taken a leaf out of Nintendo's book as while these are indeed officially-licensed products, they're being made by a third-party manufacturer and not by Sony itself.

It's also important to note that despite the visual similarities - in both the design of the figures and the packaging - these items have no impact on gameplay whatsoever are are simply intended to look nice on your shelf (some would argue that's all many amiibo are good for).

Each figure will cost $9.99, and we have to admit they do look pretty cool - even we might not be able to resist that cute little Parappa.

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See I like these but just like the Mario+rabbids fugure they have no purpose. I don’t have a big amiibo collection but the figures I do own I take into consideration only if they have a purpose for a game(s).

I will not buy any of them, even the Cartoonish Crash Bandicoot. If i want toys like that, i will buy both specific Amiibos figurines and cards for their functions. Or specific Nendoroids for display.I had lost my respect with Sony.

I'm guessing these are wave one because there's no way they forgot first party characters from God of War, Uncharted, Patapon, Loco Roco, Ape Escape and Ico.

They could even use the Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxtar, Ratchet and Clank to add more.

And then work with third party to get Lara Croft, Final Fantasy 7-9 characters, Jill/Chris from Resident Evil , Solid Snake or even the Persona characters since they seem to be the games that people associate with Playstation.

No, they couldn’t possibly have been inspired by amiibo because amiibo weren’t first and there’s no NFC. Sony did not look at the success of Amiibo and the adult collectors on Nintendo’s platform, nope, they saw no collector frenzy that cared more for unopened amiibo packs than NFC function. They took no cues from Nintendo here! Lol ~kidding of course~

@SLIGEACH_EIRE@Octane While NFC Figurines were around before Amiibo, Sony have cut it pretty close with the packaging style & overall presentation... I think Sony are likely looking at people adding to their Amiibo collection with these figs.

Either way not really a big Sony fan so I'll give these a miss, still looking for a K.K.Slider at a good price though.

@McGruber Agreed, the packaging & presentation of the figures are quite similar but nobody thinks Nintendo invented the figure with or without NFC features. People just like to attack... even if it's their own argument.

@Pigeon"It's also important to note that despite the visual similarities - in both the design of the figures and the packaging"

I'd say there are some similarities to the bases as well (the Totaku have cut outs to the bases to make them crosses, but look to have a similar thickness & custom top) but that might just be me. Either way, the figures are in packaging.. so the line still works.

Where is Ratchet & Clank? Where is Jak and Daxter? Where is Sly Cooper? How can they not use these characters as figurines? Totally missed opportunity. Anyway, few of them are worth collecting, I don't mind buying another Crash figure alongside the Skylanders Crash

@Malcrash I'm guessing Sony think one of the others is a big enough character to fill the must-have slot. Personally the only one I'd actually consider picking up is Heihachi as I used to be a big Tekken fan... though even then Heihachi is at the bottom of my list of Tekken characters (just next to Mokujin).

My buddy at my local GameStop was very hyped for these when I was in there buying a copy of Skyrim for Switch, and after looking at the first wave I'm not really sold. I will be interested when they have some Twisted Metal totaku, and I'll also bite if they ever release Coco Bandicoot or Sly Cooper. I'd be lying if I said I didn't want a Gran Turismo DeLorean figure, but that's really stretching it.

It's a cool idea for hardcore PlayStation fans but I do find the Sony IP to be pretty limited in appeal to me. I 'might' pick up Crash in the first wave, but I'm not preordering or anything. Might also be cool to see Spyro, even though my buddy says that's not likely since Activision owns the license, but I reminded him Crash Bandicoot isn't owned by Sony either so... Yeah.

I need Crash and Hunter so bad. Why is so much stuff releasing in March? It‘s almost as bad as the end of January/beginning of February. MHWorld, Dragon Ball Fighter Z, Lost Sphear, Dissidia NT, Axiom Verge Multiverse Edition, Shadow of Colossus ...

Not gonna lie, I was going to get the Skylander Crash figurine and put it with all my other amiibo, but it seemed a little too big. Glad I chose to wait on that because this one looks a lot better. As long as it's as big as your average amiibo, I might get this.

"it's not quite as if Sony has shamelessly taken a leaf out of Nintendo's book as while these are indeed officially-licensed products, they're being made by a third-party manufacturer and not by Sony itself."

So if this was first party, its "SHAME ON YOU SONY FOR COPYING NINTENDO!!" but thank god its third party it's okay? What? Even if this was first party, it's not copying Nintendo of anything. I don't know why everything nowadays that has a slight semblance is copying Nintendo. It's not.

These figures sure looks nice and for $10, it's quite tempting to buy a few. I will like to see Horizon Zero Dawn, Yakuza, Nier, Persona, Maria from Bloodborne, Nioh and many more instead of the default characters you see from PlayStation AllStars. Remember that game? Me neither except for the character list being boring.

What? So these are Amiibos “inspired” or whatever because... they’re figurines? They have a base? I don’t get it. I mean Amiibos’ purpose are the Toys to Life function (something they weren’t first to create either, though they were original in how they implemented them), and these don’t do that... these are figurines. Similar to many figurines before them. And not even produced by Sony. That’d be like GameStop producing trading cards with Sega characters on them and implying that Sega is ripping off the Pokémon TCG because... they’re also collectible cards (despite them not being part of a game, the fact that Pokémon wasn’t the first TCG, or any other real relevance aside from being in vaguely the same category).

Like... these are moments I feel NL really must be desperate for articles, they’re not even Nintendo characters so they’re no more relevant to NL than an article on Candy Crush for the iOS but they found a way to try and connect it somewhat to Nintendo just to publish another article. These are hardly ripping off Amiibos and this is not actual Nintendo news.

@Anti-Matter Sony didn't create these. Also, Nintendo copied Skylanders and Disney copied every other figurine with a base. Did you lose respect for Nintendo because of that? Of course not. Most things are a copy of something else.

Seeing these figures are supposed to represent PlayStation, I find it amusing Crash, Wipeout, and Tekken have all appeared on other systems (Ninty). Surely Uncharted, TLOU and Ratchet and Clank are more representative of Sony?

Damien McFerran doesn't have any time to play games that's why he writes crap like this.He just spends his evening taking photos of the title screen from retro sega games.Looking forward to his inevitable article containing pictures of these toys compared to bananas and a game boy.

It's funny because when amiibo was first announced, some of us were a little confused as to why NintendoLife was using words like "Nintendo's innovation/leftfield-ness, etc" when they were obviously a blatant rip-off of Skylanders (I guess there's only an uproar when it's the other way round...)

I joked that this was probably phase 1 of the operation, with phase 2 being the eventual wiping from history of the original product, so it can go down as Nintendo's innovation and anything that comes after will now be copying them instead (which is what happens with most of the innovations that people wrongly think Nintendo did first). I guess now it has happened after all, ha!

@Octane That's only if you use a vague description of toy packaging - If you're vague enough the Mario, Wario & Sonic are all the same... upright walking bipeds with gloves & eyes.

Personally I think the resemblance is there, but I'm not going to argue the point any further as it doesn't actually mean anything at the end of the day... plus I might even pick up a Totaku to sit with my Amiibo (and my 2 infinity Avengers) if a character I like comes out.

@DanteSolablood It's just that this is probably the simplest package for these type of toys. I know Infinity does weird angles and all of that, but those packages are probably more expensive too. I can't really blame Totaku for selling them like this. But yeah, what ever, they're just packaging material! Something you toss out anyway, unless you're an avid collector